Quotes About Intensity

Everybody knows when I get in the zone... I just kind of go crazy. I have a lot of fun.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

I just love the pressure, truthfully, man.

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.